John F. Farnsworth

John Franklin Farnsworth (27 March 1820-14 July 1897) was a Union Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War and a member of the US House of Representatives (R-IL 2) from 4 March 1857 to 3 March 1861 (succeeding James Hutchinson Woodworth and preceding Isaac N. Arnold) and from 4 March 1863 to 4 March 1873 (succeeding Arnold and preceding Jasper D. Ward).

Biography
John Franklin Farnsworth was born in Eaton, Canada in 1820, the uncle of Elon J. Farnsworth, and he moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan as a young adult. He became a lawyer in 1841 and served in the US House of Representatives from 1857 to 1861, when he organized the 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment at the start of the American Civil War. He led the 8th Cavalry during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862 and became a Brigadier-General on 5 December 1862. He resumed his service in the US Congress from 1863 to 1873, and he supported Reconstruction and the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. He resumed his law practice in Chicago in 1872 and moved to Washington DC in 1880, dying there in 1897.